President
Bush is re-elected in 2000.
Bush
asks Mitch Daniels from Indiana
to
serve as his
Director
of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget
Early in his
presidency, George W Bush downgraded the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA), the body designated to cope with national emergencies.
Such departments, the reasoning went, are for feeble folk looking for
government handouts (and that often meant blacks).
In the words of Bush's budget director Mitch Daniels in 2001:
"Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved
into an oversized entitlement programme . . . expectations of when the
federal government should be involved, and the degree of involvement,
may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."
--New Statesman,
a British publication
Mitch
Daniels is now running for Governor of Indiana. You may visit his campaign Website, which
reports: "Mitch made a significant personal and financial sacrifice
when he answered the call from President George W. Bush to serve as
director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)."
The OMB Director's salary was $150,000 at the time Mitch made his
significant personal and financial sacrifice to answer the call of
public service. He served the public by setting out to fix
the oversized entitlement program that FEMA had become. Hurricane
Katrina makes it clear that Daniels succeeded.
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REFERENCES
for the "Executive Salary" pay scale
Table 1. Executive Schedule (ES; also called EX) Salaries,
January 2002
- I.
Cabinet-level officials -- $166,700
- II. Deputy
secretaries of departments and heads
of major agencies -- $150,000
- III.
Under secretaries of departments and heads of middle-level agencies --
$138,200
- IV.
Assistant secretaries and general counsels of departments, heads of
minor agencies, and members of some boards and commissions --
$130,000
- V.
Administrators, commissioners, directors, and members of boards and
commissions -- $121,600
Note: Members of
Congress receive an annual salary equivalent to ES Level II, or
$150,000.
Sources: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (2001)
http://www.opm.gov/oca/02tables/ex.htm
Reprinted here from:
How Much is Enough?
Setting Pay for Presidential Appointees
Gary Burtless
The Brookings Institution
March 22, 2002
(funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts)
www.appointee.brookings.org
Time marches on.
As of Jan 2005, the ES scale (also called EX) has increased, and
Mitch would have gotten $162,100
Executive Schedule:
Level I $ 180,100
Level II 162,100
Level III 149,200
Level IV 140,300
Level V 131,400
RATES OF PAY FOR THE EXECUTIVE SCHEDULE (ES)
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2005
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